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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of the places called Pulham, in Dorset, Norfolk, or Devon. The first two are named with Old English pōl or pull ‘pool’ + hām ‘homestead’, ‘settlement’ or hamm ‘river meadow’, ‘land surrounded by water’.

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